Sonnet Xix: On Cupid's Bow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ABBA CDC DEE| On Cupid's bow how are my heartstrings bent | A |
| That see my wrack and yet embrace the same | B |
| When most I glory then I feel most shame | B |
| I willing run yet while I run repent | A |
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| My best wits still their own disgrace invent | A |
| My very ink turns straight to Stella's name | B |
| And yet my words as them my pen doth frame | B |
| Avise themselves that they are vainly spent | A |
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| For though she pass all things yet what is all | C |
| That unto me who fare like him that both | D |
| Looks to the skies and in a ditch doth fall | C |
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| Oh let me prop my mind yet in his growth | D |
| And not in Nature for best fruits unfit | E |
| Scholar saith Love bend hitherward your wit | E |
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